My problem is that the overlap between "technologies that meaningfully and materially improve people's lives" and "technologies that are profitable" has basically been saturated.
I decided to do some teeth whitening this morning with some hydrogen peroxide based stuff and there's one spot on one of my molars that REALLY doesn't like it 😵
Come to the rustic and welcoming UWU Trans Commune in the scenic countryside of Central Illinois! There you will get an intensive crash course in EXISTING AS A WOMAN!
Being trans with ADHD sucks. Either I have zero interest in jumping through the hoops with setting up consultations for gender affirming surgeries and whatnot, or I want to do ALL the surgeries and I want them RIGHT NOW.
We need to emphasize that improving quality of life and agency are things we should care about as a society. People deserve more than simply "getting by"
Sometimes I wish I could have my memory selectively wiped so I can enjoy video games as much as I did when I was a kid.
Or maybe that's just me missing a time when I could spend the entire day completely immersed in something with no thoughts or concerns about the consequences of doing that.
Maybe I just miss a time when I lacked metacognition.
Is anyone else afraid to let themselves become too immersed in something, out of fear that hyperfixation will commandeer their mind and completely fuck over their life?
Because that's how I feel about video games now.
And audiobooks.
And pretty much anything else I enjoy on a visceral level.
I don't know if this is an #ADHD experience other people share, or just my uniquely broken psyche, but the most frustrating aspect of being off my meds (and the part that's returned in force lately for me) is the feeling like nothing feels satisfying.
@malcircuit oof, not just you. I am taking a break from my ADHD meds to hopefully reset the effectiveness (also after my progesterone ran out too...ugh, my neurotransmitters don't like me). And sure enough, depression has been a little rougher and harder to find things satisfying or motivating in general. Which is ugh, so much ugh.
This is oddly resonating with something in my head but I've not solidified exactly what it is yet? Because it sort of reminds me of how stimulants dull my perception the way sedatives are supposed to do, in that very autistic-ADHD sort of way.
I'm feeling nostalgic today and was reminded of SimCity 2000. Anyone have any advice on the best way to run and play that game today? What about Rollercoaster Tycoon?
It's possible to hold two seemingly contradictory beliefs in your mind at the same time, or more realistically, to oscillate between the two.
I simultaneously believe everything is awesome and it's a great time to be alive, and also that everything is shit, it's only getting worse, and I was born at the worst possible time.
What I mean by this is that I have to keep every goddamn thing plugged in nowadays if I ever want to use it.
Yeah, AA batteries sucks, but at least alkaline batteries hold their charge for months or years if nothing is pulling current from them, and it takes 10 seconds to swap them out.
I could leave an old school Game Boy sitting for weeks and come back to it and be able to use it no problem. You do that with a Switch and you're tethered to a charger for a few hours, or just SOL.
But I guess that's just the way things are now. Nothing is actually designed to be user friendly in the sense that it's designed to maximize the thing's utility and a person's well-being.
It's designed to user friendly in the sense that it is designed to manipulate and optimize the user's behavior to generate the maximum amount of profit for the company.
Briefly considered dropping a job posting for the team I'm on, but then I got worried one of you cuties would get hired and I'd be too smitten to ever focus at my job again :_uwu: